Afternoon Reading and Conversation with Lauren Markham and Transit Books

Part of the Creative Writing Visiting Writers Series

Join SMC's Creative Writing Department in Hagerty Lounge for an afternoon reading and conversation with visiting writer Lauren Markham, author of A Map of Future Ruins, as she discusses her art, life, and writing process, alongside Adam Levy and Ashley Nelson Levy of Transit Books.

Lauren Markham is the author of A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (Riverhead, 2024) and The Far Away Brothers (Crown, 2017), which was recognized as the 2018 Ridenhour Book Prize, the Northern California Book Award, and a California Book Award Silver, among others. She has spent fifteen years working at the intersection of education and immigration. Her essays and reportage appear in outlets such as Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and VQR. Immemorial, her third book, will be published by Transit Books in 2025.

Transit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Transit authors have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN Translation Prize, and have been finalists for the National Book Award, the International Booker Prize, the National Translation Award, and more.

Visiting Writer events at Saint Mary's are free, open to the public, and ADA Accessible. Visitor parking is available on campus and light refreshments will be served. All attendees are eligible for a fee waiver for the MFA in Creative Writing application—please reach out to Collin Skeen, Assistant Director of Admissions, at cas38@stmarys-ca.edu for more information.